nonprofit advocacy organization
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Industry Mental Health
A large mental-health advocacy nonprofit that provides education, support, and policy advocacy while formally supporting involuntary civil commitment as a last-resort intervention. National Alliance on Mental Illness remains weak because of documented human harm, person-dependent governance, and coercive violence, even where the product or service has practical value.
Why this matters: NAMI is a calibration case for benevolent family-and-peer advocacy that still accepts nonconsensual psychiatric authority in some cases.
Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
D - Extractive
The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from Reversibility.
Strengths
- Ownership5/10
- Extraction5/10
- Governance4/10
Penalties
- Reversibility-5
- Human Harm-5
- Coercive Violence-4
- Identity Capture-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims9
- Direct axis claims9
- Coverage9/17
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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5 / 10 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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4 / 10 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
|
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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5 / 10 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
|
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
|
3 / 7 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
|
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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4 / 7 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
|
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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4 / 7 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
|
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
|
4 / 5 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
|
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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3 / 5 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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4 / 5 |
NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness. Linked evidence
|
Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Reversibility
?
Applied when positive conduct depends on current living leaders,
founders, family owners, or other person-contingent governance rather
than durable structure. Range: -5 to 0.
|
-5 |
NAMI offers public support and advocacy value, but its policy stance is nonprofit-board governed and not structurally locked by the affected people most exposed to coercive treatment. Linked evidence
|
Human Harm
?
Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense,
reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to
0.
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-5 |
NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone. Linked evidence
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Coercive Violence
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Direct or institutionally enabled killing, torture, detention abuse,
armed repression, forced displacement, violent domination, or
nonconsensual crisis-line emergency escalation that exposes callers to
confinement or force. Range: -30 to 0.
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-4 |
NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests. Linked evidence
|
Identity Capture
?
Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
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-1 |
NAMI’s involuntary-commitment policy turns on diagnostic categories such as serious mental illness and court-ordered treatment eligibility, creating a limited diagnostic identity-capture exposure. Linked evidence
|
Ideological Disavowal
?
Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional
necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or
non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
|
-1 |
National Alliance on Mental Illness's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because National Alliance on Mental Illness shows bounded neutrality theater: some… Linked evidence
|
Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Openness to Dissent
?
Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
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2 / 3 |
NAMI’s policy page publicly acknowledges controversy and emotional difficulty around involuntary civil commitment and states support in constrained last-resort terms rather than presenting commitment as unqualified. Linked evidence
|
Constitutional Spirit
?
Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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1 / 3 |
NAMI’s policy expressly affirms that people should have the right to make their own mental-health treatment decisions whenever possible, while retaining a last-resort exception. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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1 / 3 |
NAMI provides free public help, education, crisis-navigation information, and support-group infrastructure, creating noncommercial public value despite policy problems around commitment. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 69/100
9 verified linked claims 9 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 9/17 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 14/20
9 verified linked claims
Source quality 12/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
9 direct claims across 17 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 5/10
9/17 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1NAMI provides support, education, helplines, advocacy, and policy resources for people and families affected by mental illness.
- NAMI Policy PlatformOfficial self-description · 68%
2NAMI says people should usually make their own treatment decisions but supports involuntary civil commitment as a last resort when voluntary engagement is not possible and the intervention is believed to be in the individual’s best interests.
- NAMI policy position: Involuntary Civil CommitmentOfficial self-description · 68%
3NAMI describes involuntary civil commitment as court-ordered inpatient or supervised outpatient psychiatric treatment without the individual’s consent, while acknowledging that involuntary commitment does not produce positive results for everyone.
- NAMI policy position: Involuntary Civil CommitmentOfficial self-description · 68%
4NAMI’s policy page publicly acknowledges controversy and emotional difficulty around involuntary civil commitment and states support in constrained last-resort terms rather than presenting commitment as unqualified.
- NAMI policy position: Involuntary Civil CommitmentOfficial self-description · 68%
5NAMI’s policy expressly affirms that people should have the right to make their own mental-health treatment decisions whenever possible, while retaining a last-resort exception.
- NAMI policy position: Involuntary Civil CommitmentOfficial self-description · 68%
6NAMI provides free public help, education, crisis-navigation information, and support-group infrastructure, creating noncommercial public value despite policy problems around commitment.
- NAMI Policy PlatformOfficial self-description · 68%
7NAMI offers public support and advocacy value, but its policy stance is nonprofit-board governed and not structurally locked by the affected people most exposed to coercive treatment.
- NAMI Policy PlatformOfficial self-description · 68%
- NAMI policy position: Involuntary Civil CommitmentOfficial self-description · 68%
8NAMI’s involuntary-commitment policy turns on diagnostic categories such as serious mental illness and court-ordered treatment eligibility, creating a limited diagnostic identity-capture exposure.
- NAMI policy position: Involuntary Civil CommitmentOfficial self-description · 68%
9National Alliance on Mental Illness's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because National Alliance on Mental Illness shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise, public-interest, professional, market, safety, or institutional language, but the record does not show dominant concealment of standpoint.
- National Alliance on Mental Illness official siteGeneral web source · 58%
- NAMI Policy PlatformOfficial self-description · 68%
- NAMI policy position: Involuntary Civil CommitmentOfficial self-description · 68%
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